The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-09-23
eidered.

After this review the court saws that il
is apparen. that just such Az attack was
made on the police in the Haymarket as
was contemplated and arranged for be-
forehand at the meetings of the internal
tionals and kindred associations. in which
the defendants took part: and that the
bomb was thrown as had been arranged.
1t holds III ct the jury were warranted in
believing from this evidence that Louis
Lining was party TO the Havmarket
colspiFa cy. and also that the jury We're
justified in believing from the evidence
that the man who threw the bomb was
either member of the conspiracy, or an
agent employed by it.
As TO Engle ard Fischer. the court held
that they were chargeabie with the crime
of murder, az they had advised and IL
duced men to enter into a plot TO murder
the police with bombs and pistols in
certain contingency. and although they
were not actually among those who were
present when the bomb was thrown,
they aided, a5etted. advised and en-
coura Esd tina. murder.
Tbs relations of the other defendants
wers then considered. The opinion pro-
ceeded 10 lay stress UPON the fact that the
call for tae Haymarket meeting. which
eliminated in the massacre, was printed
in the English and German languages,
both upon the same sheet of paper. and
that the printers employed on the -ir6eiter
ZeituRg, who usually quit work at five
o'clock. were kept busily at work on this
particular Monday night, while five or SIX
of the employees of the -irbeiter Zeitun9
were kept at work q long time after the
hour for closing.
-Ios 90 ~ a
action of the armed section OF the Monday
night meeting, and inspired the adoption
of the plan agreed upon, was apparent
from the fact that its contents We're fully
discussed and dwelt upon ct that meeting.
The testimony of Joe Greeuhut, at that
time sanitary inspector under the admins
tratiou of Mayor Harrison. that he was
present in the Office of the -ATbeiter Eating
while Spies was writing the revenge cir
cular. and reading the proof sheets of it,
was dwelt upon IS unrefutabie proof Of
the authorship of the circular.
Turning TO the claim of error in en-
paneling the jury, the court held that it
was correct and in accordance with the
plain meaning of tie law, which says that
the jury snail be passed upon and &C.
cep.ed in panels of four by the parties.
a careful examination of the record could
the court see that the remarks of the
States attorney TO the jury were
marked by any such impropriet;es as to
warrant : reversal Of the judgment.
Upon tae question IS 10 whether a new
triai should be granted becaase the court
below refused 70 grant a separate trial to
each Of the defendants, the court gives a
if-s Of
discretion with the court below. and the
point had been decided again and again.
Particular attention was given to the
case Of Fisiden. the only Englishman
among the condemned men. and who
claimed that he was present at
the meeting only by acci-
dent, having had an engagement
to address meeting of strikers in another
part of the city upon that fatal night.
The court held tbs. if. as claimed. there was
strong bias against him on the part of the
policeman testifying for the State there
was equally strong bias on tie part of the
witnesses that gave evidence in his favor.
The turbuIences of the crowd in the
Haymarket. the incendiary references to
capitalists in general and to Jay Gould in
particular, were dwelt upon as indicating
the Interior objects that Spies, Parsons
and their associates had in view, and
there are copious extracts from the
speeches delivered upon the memorable oc-
cesion TO prove that those responsible for
the gathering had but one idea, and tnat
to iDcite their hearers to violence.
Incendiary utterances in the two
Anarchist papers We're quoted at length
and the fact commented upon that these
were the organs of the InternatioIalS, and
that the members looked to these papers
for orders ami directions. II is held that
the jury were at liberty to use these pub
locations, in connection with other facts,